Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

5 out of 5 stars

Enlightening!

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09-11-16

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis

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Narrated by:
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This is a summary of J.D. Vance's
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy

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Length: 43 mins

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Hillbilly Elegy is a powerful, riveting memoir that tells us about J.D. Vance’s journey from a young, troubled boy to a graduate of Yale Law School. He grew up in Appalachia - in a small town that was drug-torn and filled with misery. It’s very difficult to discern the discontent and rage coming from the working-class whites in modern America, but this audiobook helps you understand why they behave the way they do. Yes, they may seem like a "bunch of lunatics," but at the end of the day, they are just like us.

4 out of 5 stars

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy

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09-27-17

Summary of White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

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Sam Scholl

Length: 28 mins

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White Trash by historian Nancy Isenberg is a riveting chronicle of class in America as explored through the role and the plight of the white underclass from the days of colonial settlers to the present. Despite the founders' declaration that "all men are created equal," the reality of life in America has continuously told a different story.

Summary of The Underground Railroad: by Colson Whitehead | Includes Analysis

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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a work of speculative fiction that follows a runaway slave, Cora, on a grisly tour through the American South. Conveyed by the underground railroad, which the author has rendered as a literal mode of transportation, Cora travels from Georgia, to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Tennessee, and finally to Indiana. Dogged every step of the way by a legendary slave catcher, Cora bears witness to multiple atrocities.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - A 30-Minute Summary

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Length: 1 hr and 7 mins

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2 out of 5 stars

Not worth the listen

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06-14-15

Hillbilly Elegy

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

By:
J. D. Vance

Narrated by:
J. D. Vance

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.

5 out of 5 stars

Enlightening!

By
Gotta Tellya
on
09-11-16

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis

By:
Ant Hive Media

Narrated by:
Michael Piotrasch

Length: 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
17

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
15

Story

4 out of 5 stars
12

This is a summary of J.D. Vance's
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy

By:
FastReads,
J.D. Vance

Narrated by:
Anthony Pica

Length: 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Story

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Hillbilly Elegy is a powerful, riveting memoir that tells us about J.D. Vance’s journey from a young, troubled boy to a graduate of Yale Law School. He grew up in Appalachia - in a small town that was drug-torn and filled with misery. It’s very difficult to discern the discontent and rage coming from the working-class whites in modern America, but this audiobook helps you understand why they behave the way they do. Yes, they may seem like a "bunch of lunatics," but at the end of the day, they are just like us.

4 out of 5 stars

Summary of Hillbilly Elegy

By
alexandra gillis
on
09-27-17

Summary of White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

Includes Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Sam Scholl

Length: 28 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
9

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
9

Story

5 out of 5 stars
8

White Trash by historian Nancy Isenberg is a riveting chronicle of class in America as explored through the role and the plight of the white underclass from the days of colonial settlers to the present. Despite the founders' declaration that "all men are created equal," the reality of life in America has continuously told a different story.

Summary of The Underground Railroad: by Colson Whitehead | Includes Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Susan Murphy

Length: 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
19

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
18

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
14

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a work of speculative fiction that follows a runaway slave, Cora, on a grisly tour through the American South. Conveyed by the underground railroad, which the author has rendered as a literal mode of transportation, Cora travels from Georgia, to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Tennessee, and finally to Indiana. Dogged every step of the way by a legendary slave catcher, Cora bears witness to multiple atrocities.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - A 30-Minute Summary

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Narrated by:
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Length: 1 hr and 7 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
136

Performance

3 out of 5 stars
117

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
114

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

2 out of 5 stars

Not worth the listen

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06-14-15

Summary of Evicted: by Michael Desmond | Includes Analysis

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Matthew Desmond's
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a sociological study of evictions, housing, and homelessness in Milwaukee. The book follows the lives of a number of tenants and landlords in order to examine how access to housing affects the poor. Desmond also includes historical background, statistics, and research findings to provide context for his narratives.

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Alexander Hamilton (2004) is a sprawling biography of one of the most important figures in American history. It is based on copious original research, especially into Hamilton's early years. As a political theorist, a polemicist, and the first Treasury secretary, Hamilton dedicated his life, his intellect, and a seemingly limitless stream of words to the cause of unifying and strengthening the United States.

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Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek advocates for a leadership style that focuses on serving others rather than pursuing shareholder goals or personal interests. Modern trends in leadership prioritize profits and executive bonuses over creating a healthy environment for employees. Leaders who think of themselves as serving their employees like family can increase job satisfaction and engagement, which reduces stress and increases productivity because employees feel secure.

5 out of 5 stars

good to have a summary

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The Soul of America

The Battle for Our Better Angels

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Narrated by:
Fred Sanders,
Jon Meacham

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

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Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and LBJ, and illuminating the courage of influential citizen activists and civil rights pioneers, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. Each of these dramatic hours have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear - a struggle that continues even now.

5 out of 5 stars

more hopeful than ever.

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05-14-18

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Power depends on the relationships between a person and those he or she seeks to control. Powerful people must cultivate their appearances to earn respect and eliminate doubt. They must practice selective honesty, misdirection, and an excess of secrecy to gain a tactical advantage. Timing is central to maintaining power, as is the ability to adapt. The array of strategies available when seeking power include mirroring the opponent’s actions and controlling the opponent's options for action.

2 out of 5 stars

Save your $3.95....read the original.

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Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman: An Action Steps Summary and Analysis

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Daniel Kahneman's purpose in his book,
Thinking Fast and Slow, is to bring within the grasp of everyday understanding the power of psychology, perception, illogical thinking, irrationality, and behavioral economics. Arguably Kahneman's most famous publication, the book summarizes research that he has conducted over decades and decades. Inside, Kahneman explains how we, as humans, often think and behave irrationally due to faulty intuition, biases, and erroneous mental shortcuts and how these patterns of thought can hold us back.

5 out of 5 stars

By far the best of the summaries

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Summary of The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss - Includes Analysis

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich is a manifesto calling for workers everywhere to rise up and flee their cubicles in pursuit of a life guided by their passions and not their paychecks. It offers a practical, step-by-step guide that can be followed by people who are not independently wealthy but who don't want to be slaves to their jobs until retirement.

3 out of 5 stars

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Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success by Shawn Stevenson | Book Summary Includes Analysis

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Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson When it comes to health, there is one criminally overlooked element: sleep. Good sleep helps you shed fat for good, stave off disease, stay productive, and improve virtually every function of your mind and body. That's what Shawn Stevenson learned when a degenerative bone disease crushed his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Like many of us, he gave up on his health and his body until he decided there must be a better way.

2 out of 5 stars

mispronounced words!

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A Gentleman in Moscow

A Novel

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A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors.

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant, heartfelt, inspiring

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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Attention: This is a supplementary guide meant to enhance your experience of JD Vance's
Hillbilly Elegy. It is not the original book nor is it intended to replace the original book.

White Trash

The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By:
Nancy Isenberg

Narrated by:
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Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

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In
White Trash, Nancy Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early 19th century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and
Duck Dynasty.

5 out of 5 stars

400 Year Head Start Squandered

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Length: 24 mins

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Beginning in the 17th century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system. America's current racial caste system builds upon the legacy of both chattel slavery that existed in the United States prior to the Civil War and on the system of Jim Crow laws that designated African Americans to second-class citizenship in many parts of the American South prior to the civil rights movement.

Publisher's Summary

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School.

James David (J. D.) Vance's family is of Scots-Irish descent. His people have a long history of enduring poverty and hardship. Since the 18th century in the United States, the Scots-Irish have been plantation workers, sharecroppers, miners, and factory and millworkers. Many settled or have roots in Appalachia. Other Americans sometimes consider J. D.'s people "hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash". As industrial manufacturing has declined in recent decades, hillbillies have been hit especially hard.

Please note: This is summary and analysis of the book and not the original book.